Why did Richard love this book?
Another memoir by another funny and talented writer. Subtitled âBetween the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus,â this anecdote-rich, leisurely view of her life shows why Toksvig is a British National Treasure.
As in all memoirs, there is pain as well as pleasure, but Toksvigâs insights throw light into even the darkest of corners. And her observations of London, as it happens all around her from her front-row seat at the top of the bus, bring my city richly to life.
1 author picked Between the Stops as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and Great British Bake Off star - is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it.
'Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London, where I was living,âŚ